4 October

To clarify, whenever I complain about this, I’m not talking about day-one iPhone 6s buyers — but people who’ll get a 3D Touch-enabled iPhone in two years (or six months) without knowing anything about it.

17 October

Yahoo’s password-free sign-in is like two-factor auth without the first factor, which is idiotic because the whole point of the password in two-factor is that a random attacker can’t spam you with sign-in notifications. So that’s another security scheme that fails as soon as someone is actually trying to breach it. (Chances are the system is going to throttle sign-in notifications if someone spams the login form, which will make it harder or outright impossible for you to sign in when you do want to.)

Of course it would work great if your login itself could be secret (like my Apple ID is, for instance), but in this case the login is the very e-mail account whose inbox you’re trying to access.

Yes, passwords sucks. But we’ve been sticking with them because all technologically available alternatives are worse.

19 October

20 October

Fuck pro design apps not showing a true “Save As.” I’ve never been so happy for Photoshop not adopting new OS conventions immediately. (Reminder: the “Save As” that appears when you press Alt isn’t a true “Save As” — any changes made before will also appear in the old file.)

Best Apple TV game I’ve seen so far is Shadowmatic. Too many iOS games ported with click replacing tap, which doesn’t work because the button’s way too hard. (Props to Rayman Adventures for understanding that you can still recognize taps on the remote’s trackpad.)And if the most “game” you can have on Apple TV is Shadowmatic… I’m glad I didn’t spend a month developing my idea for a roguelike.